AMERICAN ZOO interview- Director Tim Travers Hawkins on his documentary, 2026 Tribeca Festival

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Tim Travers Hawkins, the director of the documentary AMERICAN ZOO, talks about the film with Cherry the Geek TV's Joe Vanourney.

AMERICAN ZOO had its world premiere at the 2026 Tribeca Festival and also screened at SXSW London.

Lost films discovered in the ruins of America’s once-largest private zoo uncover the remarkable saga of two families — the Lindemanns and the Hecks — bound together by myth, power, and obsession. To tourists, the Catskill Game Farm was pure family fun, but behind the fences lurked something stranger: attempts to revive primordial creatures shaped by the lingering influence of discredited Nazi-era theories about reshaping the natural world.

Part faded Americana, part buried family mystery, AMERICAN ZOO is a cinematic excavation of ambition, pseudoscience, and the blurred line between history, myth and memory.

Tim Travers Hawkins (Director), Melanie Archer (Producer), Mary Lisio (Executive Producer), Joe Bender (Cinematographer), Kelly Adams (Cinematographer), Nell Constantinople (Co-Executive Producer), Chris Peterson (Editor), George Foulgham (Re-Recording Mixer), Bobby Silvestris (Contributor), Shawn Johnson (Contributor)

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